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>Pascal is the dog is here.
>>2883789
He looks familiar. Is that the wolf from Monster Rancher?
>>2883792
SMT1
>>2883789
PET
>Games age
Where does this meme come from?
Now that the dust has settled, my wife and I bought a Retron 5 to play GBA games on an LCD with a smoothing filter so we can see which games have aged poorly.
>Where does this meme come from?
>>2880095
Underages and people who can't accept that their tastes have changed so they blame the game instead.
Does /vr/ have any stories of funny and/or terrible bootleg games? Played this a few years ago and recently became curious of other's experiences.
I used to have (well, still have) a bootleg 40 in 1 gameboy cart that had every gen 1&2 Pokemon game on it, the Crystal version was inexplicably the infamous DRUG BAG FUCK Vietnamese Crystal version despite the other games being legit
It also had the Super Mario Land 4 game that's a hack of Crayon Shin-Chan and Pokemon-themed hacks of Super Mario Land and Pinball: Revenge of the Gator
>>2878703
I was in Marocco once and saw a bootleg pokemon game in one of the markets.
As I remember it the box was red with a Gyarados on it. I regret not buying it, but I guess it can be found online if anyone have an idea of what it could be called.
Buying GBA Pokemon games is a fucking crapshoot on ebay, although that isn't retro. I've gotten 3 fucking fake carts from US sellers.
Who /Strife/ here?
>>2873654
I've been meaning to play it for a while now. I probably will once I finish Duke3D Nuclear Winter.
I treated the game like it was just typical Doom, despite all of the changes, and went completely unprepared to the last boss.
Needless to say that when playing on a high difficulty level using the fully upgraded Sigil against the final boss WILL kill you unless you brought in healing items.
dat moment when you rebel thief and cannot correctly speak to that npc
>darker, grittier story.
>more spoopy levels means variety to gameplay.
>supernatural elements like in 'the sword' gave a more unique atmosphere over 'big mansion' levels.
>garret more of a snidey cynic than a bag of hokey one-liners.
>return to the cathedral
Why is Thief 2 so often cited as the best Thief?
>>2839452
Probably because more people would see that list just as much as a reason to dislike thief 1 over 2.
So there's more people out there who don't prefer varied levels and a more unique tone?
Thief 2 is great don't get me wrong, but it feels like the changes made larely weren't for the better. Bigger levels ushered away the tighter feel that many thief 1 maps had, and people point out zombies/burricks in the 1st as silly, while being perfectly content with aiming for portable boiler hatches on talking bipedal robbots with their water arrows.
Outside of both being incredibly influential, which has better gameplay: Quake, or Doom?
http://www.strawpoll.me/6223345
Quake, but barely.
>>2844271
>>2844260
Gameplay is kind of a broad word, but Doom is thrilling while Quake seems very bland to me.
Manlet edition.
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>Play Tibia:
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what a activity!
Slightly off-topic, but what's the offline game closest to Tibia that isn't Ultima VII?
>>2810904
self hosted OT
ITT: We post games that may have been popular, but never had much of a legacy. This definitely comes to mind. To this day, I still think this game is better known for all the clones it spawned rather than any significant sequels it may have had.
>>2886186
Only in US. Japan went nuts for Xevious.
It is one of Namco's best games.
>>2886186
Never liked Xevious. It lacks the challenge of other shmups, it lacks the graphics and sound of future shmups, and it doesn't have the charm of early single screen shmups.
Innovative as it may have been, as a game itself I never really liked it. If it didn't have the Nazca lines or the mother ship every once in a while it would be entirely forgettable.
>>2886197
Prior to xevious, you basically had space invaders. It was a big step forward. It was also doing the starfox aesthetic which gets built upon in the follow in games.
What does /vr/ consider objectively some of the very worst retro games?
This has been covered by every two-bit hack on Youtube countless times but most of the time they just suck at the game or take the ideas that were innovative at the time out of context or focus too much on shitty cashgrab licensed games (*cough* *cough* AVGN).
>pic only sort of related.. the whole "ET caused the American Video Games Crash" is a fucking meme, it's not even THAT bad by Atari VCS standards...
>>2886068
Tom and Jerry: Frantic Antics on genesis and Plucky's Big Adventure on PS1 are some of my non-obvious choices for worst games.
>>2886068
IMO E.T. is a pretty solid game, the only bad thing about it is the falling down hole glitch.
Superman 64 though, is a literal pile of shit.
But i'm just taking potshots at easy targets.
Friday The 13th is pretty bad
>>2886068
Dash Galaxy. Fuck that game.
Have any of you pushed past the first level of this clusterfuck of a game? I just cant do it. It is so slow and monotonous. In fact, at one point I got stuck between two platforms with literally no way to get out.
But hey, the music is great.
>>2885850
It's not that bad. The controls take some getting used to. It's actually pretty easy to beat.
>>2885862
It's such as slow paced game though. Does it pick up?
Speed Slider is by far the best zone. Botanic Base, Marina Madness and Techno Tower are ok but very similar to each other, and Amazing Arena is boring.
>saw comment suggesting to replace kiddy with donkey in rom hack
>wtf has this rom hack not been made yet?
>general why does 4chan hate original donkey Kong country
Why? There's a cheat code to only have Dixie the entire game.
>>2885669
Never mind, the TUFST code just removes dk barrels, it doesn't actually remove kiddie. When you start a new level both Kongs appear.
>>2885669
Not good enough i want diddy or donkey, Dixie and kiddie are inferior a and this needs ve bitched about on the internet
So I recently decided to get into the Saturn library, but the used one I bought doesn't read any discs. I tried a few simply tricks like adjusting the laser pot but I'm no hardware guy, so does /vr/ know a reliable place to get a working Saturn? Preferably a JP white one. Is there a place that sells refurbished Saturns?
Also, any tips on basic maintenance / upkeep to hold off the system's demise as long as possible?
I'm planning on using an Action Replay to play NA games on it as I come across them, but my Jap skills aren't too rusty
Just replace the laser. It is not difficult if you follow some online guides.
A new laser is cheap and will work for awhile...though not as long as a fully calibrated one.
>>2884212
Like I said, not a hardware guy. I don't want to solder and disassemble and all that jazz.
I'd just like to know where I can reliably buy a working model
>>2884337
Back to /v/ with you, sir.
I bought this videogame, /vr/. What am I in for?
>>2883498
But with less content.
>>2883503
Does it have all the challenges though?
>>2883498
How about you play the fucking game so you have something to comment on before making a thread dip shit?
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Who else remembers Raiden? This game is just fuckin' awesome, even to this day.
>he's a shooter fag
JUST
>>2883462
It's pretty well known though.
What the hell happened to /vr/? Now it's like /v2/.
Hey guys, I found the one redeeming quality of the Phillips CDi... Its music!
Hotel Mario: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jDXmJtOOhw
The Wand of Gamelon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lez7EtINP8
The Faces of Evil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-6Lj50Tuh8
Tetris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQlmsjYS4aw
>>2883235
holy shit that tetris music
>>2883235
>tetris' music
Damn, I've been miissing out.
One of the Zelda games overuses some instrument like crazy. I don't know the name of it but it makes the sound you get if you take a comb and drag all the tines along the corner of a desk, or if you wind an old-fashioned clock or toy really quickly.
